Occupational hazards and health cost of women cotton pickers in Pakistani Punjab

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bakhsh, Khuda ^a   Ahmad, Naeem ^b   Kamran, M Asif ^c   Hassan, Sarfraz ^d   Abbas, Qasir ^d   Saeed, Rashed ^e   Hashmi, M Sadiq ^f  

^a Department of Environmental Sciences   (Pakistan)

^b Public Health Engineering Department   (Pakistan)

^c NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY NIAB   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^e PARC   (Pakistan)

^f KARAKORAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cotton; Health cost; Pakistan; Pesticide; Women cotton pickers

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGRICULTURE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GOSSYPIUM; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LEAST SQUARE ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAKISTAN; PROCEDURES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GOSSYPIUM; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAKISTAN; PESTICIDES; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84986880071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3635-3     Document Type: Article

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